It's an odd exhibit considering the location. If the stories are true, it's a piece of ancient history.

It's a large stone covered in writing, with a date that makes it roughly 650 years old,

and you can see it for yourself if you swing by the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce.

It's not just ordinary writing, though. No, this stone is thought to contain a record of

an event that happened, a sort of memorial, if you will. According to the writing on its cold gray surface,

30 Scandinavian explorers had set up camp for the nights in the area, only to meet a grizzly end.

It seems that a few of them headed out fishing one day, only to return and find 10 of the men who

stayed behind, dead and bloody. And just as we might build a monument to fallen soldiers today,

they had set up a record of their own small tragedy.

But here's the truly mysterious part of the stone.

It wasn't found in Sweden or Ireland or anywhere else in Europe.

No, this Viking stone from 1362, covered in ruins that capture a dark

tale, was discovered in 1910 in western Minnesota. The farmer who uncovered it, as well as the

community who surrounded him, named it for the nearest town, which is why even today, it's known

as the Kensington Roon Stone. As you'd imagine,

a claim that wild has been hotly debated for well over a century. The idea that Vikings,

those marauding seafarers of the medieval world, had somehow navigated a complex series of

lakes and rivers all the way from the northeast of modern-day America to the

landlocked states of Minnesota. For most historians, it's pure fantasy. But the Kensington

Rune Stone does contain one bit of truth. A landscape doesn't technically have to be ancient

to contain a multitude of amazing legends, Even in the middle of the United States,

where old buildings look like new constructions compared to places like Europe,

...